P.G. County: A Novel
One World/Ballantine
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- Studio: One World/Ballantine
- Theatrical Release Date: Dec 31, 1969
- DVD Release Date: Feb 27, 2007
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- ASIN: 034549492X
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- Sales Rank: 110491
Editorial Review from Product Description:
In the sprawling homes and upscale townhouses of the exclusive, largely African American Prince George?s County, the lives of five women intersect?and the secrets, scandals, loves, and losses that ensue are par for the course where power, beauty, and wealth reside.brbrbBarbara/b is the most influential woman in this swanky neighborhood, but she?s got her hands full?one hand is busy dealing with her husband?s wandering eye, while the other always needs a cocktail glass. bJolene/b is half of P.G. County?s number-two couple?and she desperately wants what she doesn?t have: namely Barbara?s husband. bPearl/b owns a hair salon and lives on the outskirts of the posh community with her son, Kenyatta. She?s not only juggling a growing business and a bad divorce, but now she?s has to cope with Kenyatta?s less-than-ideal girlfriend. bCandice/b is white and liberal, but her daughter?s new beau tests her beliefs?and opens a can of worms she never knew existed. bLee/b is a runaway teen, a girl whose only connection to her father is an old photo and the belief that he?s well-off and waiting for her in . . . brbrbP.G. COUNTYbr/bbrbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./i
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  Good up until the ending, 2008-01-19
Okay, I borrowed the audio version from the library and for the first 75% of the story it served its purpose of being a lightweight on the road fiction. However, like others have stated the story made two huge mountains out of molehills at the end.
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br /First, the Candice character way overreacted to finding out she had a black relative in her lineage. Did she know anything about America's history? Apparently not. Yea, it may have been surprising to find out but would it really turn your life upside down. I doubt it.
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br /Secondly, even though I found the Lee storyline to be the least interesting it was tolerable. However, in the end after showing the picture of her father to everyone and their mother she pulls out a gun on one of the party guests and does the tired old "if you move, I'll shoot" routine. The thing is the story would have been written just a well if she had pulled out the photo one last time, especially when the wife, Jolene, confronted her.
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br /I never lived in P.G. County but I visited friends there all the time (Bowie, Md). The character Jolene reminded me of my friends' neighbors, she would constantly harp about the "ghetto" areas and people in P.G. county. So while listening to the story I enjoyed the Jolene arc the best because I had a perfect visual of who she could be.
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br /Overall, a good read or listen that ended very badly.
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Not especially easy to get into, 2007-10-16
Ironically, this is the first novel I read by Connie Briscoe, and the title of this book is where I have spent my entire life: P.G. County (Prince George's County.) It was fairly difficult for me to really take an interest in this book. It wasn't until the latter middle that I found myself remotely intrigued.
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br / Jolene, Barbara, Pearl, Candice and Lee are this fictional novel's leading ladies. Jolene is not a very likable character for she is superficial, haughty and has no real regard for her marriage because she has several affairs and doesn't show an iota of remorse. She is married to Patrick, who sees more than she thinks he does throughout the book. Barbara struggles with her marriage and her substance addiction. Her husband, Bradford, is a shameless philanderer, yet filthy rich. Perhaps the reason that he doesn't really hide his affairs from his wife is because he knows that he is the bread winner and she hasn't contributed much financially to their marriage and household. Pearl is a full-figured hairdresser who revolves her life around her son, Kenyetta. She has high hopes for Kenyetta but is disappointed to find that he is dating a white woman, Ashley. She also is a bit self-conscious because she is heavyset. Candice is Ashley's mother. She, like Pearl, is upset because Ashley is dating outside of her race. Later in the book, though, we find that she and her children are part black and they all seem to have a gripe with that. Finally the author brings us Lee, a character who was seemingly attached to the story at the eleventh hour and seemed to bring the story down a bit because of her redundancy. She was molested as an adolescent, and because of that and the fact that she cannot find her father, she is a menace to society, committing several crimes.
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br / When so many characters are within a novel, it is imperative that the author keeps his/her reader entertained somehow because keeping up with each character isn't an easy task. In reading this book, I had a hard time distinguishing the characters because of my lack of interest. Not only that, but the book has an abrupt and sudden ending which left much to be desired.
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br / Potential buyers, it's alright to pass this book up. The only thing you would be missing is a whole bunch of women with a whole bunch of problems, and I'm sure the majority of you can find that in your realities.
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